UPDATE: Dorian continues to weaken, NHC predicts storm will dissipate

At the 11 p.m. advisory, Tropical Storm Dorian remained about 2,100 miles from Palm Beach County, but there were serious questions whether the storm would remain intact long enough to reach the Eastern Caribbean, let alone Florida.

As with the previous advisory, the National Hurricane Center again noted the system’s maximum winds had fallen, this time to 40 mph, barely above the 39-mph threshold required for classification as a tropical storm. The NHC notes the storm, moving westward at a quick 22 mph, still has a decent circulation at the lower and middle levels, but most of the storms near the storm had dramatically weakened.

Forecasters expect the storm to weaken into a tropical depression or remnant low in the next couple of days before dissipating completely in about four days. However, hurricane experts also caution that because the system is moving over warmer water and an environment of relaxing wind shear, it could develop new storms and regain some strength.

The official forecast path calls for complete dissipation somewhere north of Haiti or the Dominican Republic sometime Monday night.